Author Topic: Morality/childrearing question...dead armadillo  (Read 4457 times)

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Re: Morality/childrearing question...dead armadillo
« Reply #25 on: August 18, 2011, 11:57:36 PM »
Good on you for 'fessing up to the kid. And paying her, as well.

Also, have you angered a redneck gang lately? ....

Redneck gang of porch sitting mongrels that love nothing better than to drag home the most horrible roadkill possible.
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Re: Morality/childrearing question...dead armadillo
« Reply #26 on: August 19, 2011, 12:22:24 AM »
Now go and make yourself a nice cup of honey and hot tea.  Soothing. =)
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Re: Morality/childrearing question...dead armadillo
« Reply #27 on: August 19, 2011, 03:18:24 AM »
And yes, she's getting two hundred bucks.

That's a fair start.  IMO, you owe her an apology as well, explaining why what you did was wrong.  Hawkmoon and Balog have the right of it, I'd say.

...And I see, reading through the rest of the posts before sending this off, that you've done the deed.  Well done, for standing up and admitting you screwed up (both to the kidlet and here, when asking for opinions).  I don't think you need to take over Fistful's place here on APS, though - after all, this WAS his fault, wasn't it?  :lol:  The rest of us just play in his pond sometimes, it's ALWAYS Fistful's fault!

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Re: Morality/childrearing question...dead armadillo
« Reply #28 on: August 19, 2011, 10:28:39 AM »
You do it and have her watch. 

You break out your mask with the combo organic vapor, dust, and radionuclides cartridge mounted, get a couple of stout plastic trash bags, you pick it up by laying one opened trash bag over it, and use your hands to kind of roll it up and into the other trash bag.  Then seal up the outer bag.

I've had to get rid of a number of smellies in my day.  That's the way to do it.  Screw the $100.  Just tell her you have to show her how to do it so if necessary someday, she can do it.  Life is not all pink unicorns and pretty nail polish.

You can chase away some of the flies beforehand, or spray on them, but face the fact that this operation will involve some of them landing on you.  I never used OFF! insect repellent on myself beforehand, so I don't know if that would work with flies.

You can let her feel like she contributed positively by having her hose off the area afterward.  (If she doesn't want to, don't push it, you do it.) 

By the way, you do have a respirator mask, don't you?  About $40 at many lumber yards --not extremely useful, but if you need it, you'll be glad you have it.  I'm not talking about the paper ones, which don't block out smellies. And barely block out particles.  Useless as tits on a bull.

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Re: Morality/childrearing question...dead armadillo
« Reply #29 on: August 19, 2011, 01:12:51 PM »
Kid gets the $100 and a lavish apology.

If a kid can't trust their parents, who can they trust?
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Re: Morality/childrearing question...dead armadillo
« Reply #30 on: August 19, 2011, 01:44:35 PM »
If a kid can't trust their parents, who can they trust?

Which, incidentally, is why I've never understodd the whole "lying to your kids about Santa/the Easter Bunny/Tooth Fairy etc" thing.
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Re: Morality/childrearing question...dead armadillo
« Reply #31 on: August 19, 2011, 02:07:37 PM »
Which, incidentally, is why I've never understodd the whole "lying to your kids about Santa/the Easter Bunny/Tooth Fairy etc" thing.

Meh, that rates right up there with the unrealistic conception of reality we give kids (kids need?) about just about every aspect of the world until they are ready to understand more sophistication.  

Also, kids are immersed in unreality of their own making every day.  Some folks call it "imagination."  Taking part in the imagination of small children used to be part of the fun of being a kid and raising kids.  Too many of the Christian fundies and their atheistic analogs seem just terrified of such fun.  Theirs are stern Gods that will brook no such frippery.
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Re: Morality/childrearing question...dead armadillo
« Reply #32 on: August 19, 2011, 02:32:18 PM »
Playing pretend and telling your kid a lie are not the same thing.
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Re: Morality/childrearing question...dead armadillo
« Reply #33 on: August 19, 2011, 02:43:56 PM »
Playing pretend and telling your kid a lie are not the same thing.

Yes, the difference is intent. 

Now, tell me, what malign intent lies behind all those despicable parents who exchange quarters for the baby teeth of their sleeping children?
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Re: Morality/childrearing question...dead armadillo
« Reply #34 on: August 19, 2011, 04:09:09 PM »
It would have served you right if daughter returned the armadillo to the place she found it.

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Re: Morality/childrearing question...dead armadillo
« Reply #35 on: August 19, 2011, 05:53:09 PM »
There are times when I think I've learned as many lessons from raising my kids as I taught them in the raising. You did good rectifying the situation Stand-watie. And whoever made the comment in the first couple responses about daughters and their daddy's was dead on the money. Be a man she can admire and set the bar high.
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Re: Morality/childrearing question...dead armadillo
« Reply #36 on: August 19, 2011, 07:55:48 PM »
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Re: Morality/childrearing question...dead armadillo
« Reply #37 on: August 19, 2011, 08:35:59 PM »


Good on ya.

And your kiddo for bagging a dead 'dilla.
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Re: Morality/childrearing question...dead armadillo
« Reply #38 on: August 19, 2011, 08:37:48 PM »
Will you be my daddy? I can do chores.  :'(  So in need of a father figure.
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Re: Morality/childrearing question...dead armadillo
« Reply #39 on: August 19, 2011, 11:21:21 PM »
Fistful beat me to it. But I really do NOT need a father figure. Just an allowance.
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Re: Morality/childrearing question...dead armadillo
« Reply #40 on: August 19, 2011, 11:33:07 PM »
Fistful beat me to it. But I really do NOT need a father figure. Just an allowance.

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Re: Morality/childrearing question...dead armadillo
« Reply #41 on: August 20, 2011, 02:32:38 AM »
Good answers all, and I thank you although I'll admit that they weren't pleasant to hear. Apology has been tendered and graciously received. Cash has been tendered and enthusiastically received.

Moderators if my admission of lower-than-a-snake-belly-behavior reflects badly on this forum I won't be mad if you relocate this thread.

I'm not a moderator here, but IMHO this thread does not reflect poorly on anyone. You were man enough to question your action and ask for outside opinions, you were man enough to take your lumps here graciously (or seemingly so, at least), and -- most importantly, you were man enough to go back to your daughter and make amends.

How could that reflect badly? IMHO, if the apology and explanation were handled appropriately, more than likely she learned a lesson that's more valuable than the one you thought you were going to convey at the outset.
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Re: Morality/childrearing question...dead armadillo
« Reply #42 on: August 20, 2011, 09:29:27 AM »
How could that reflect badly?

Cuz dude got punked out by a dead armerdilla.

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